An exciting career opportunity exists in Pretoria for a pavement engineer/technical director at a consulting engineering company within a civil engineering environment. If you have the following behavioural competency and experience, we look forward to receiving your application.
The technical director role requires working collaboratively with a project manager and director to design and execute specific technical improvements (maintenance, reliability, production, process improvement, management systems, sanitation, supply chain) and lead multiple teams through organisational change efforts of varying size and complexity.
This role will utilise change management principles, processes, and tools to focus on driving financial and operational results for our clients, behavioral changes; designing change strategy, assessing stakeholder impacts and organizational readiness, recommending and/or implementing appropriate communication, training, and behavioral change solutions, and measuring effectiveness to enhance organisation, group, and individual performance.
Behavioural competency:
- Contractual knowledge of the JBCC, GCC, Fidic and NEC forms of Contract
- Understanding of Construction Industry
- Basic Routine Road Maintenance and/or Road Rehabilitation knowledge
- Willingness to travel long distances and work in different locations when required
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team or independently with minimal oversight.
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment and adapt to frequent project changes.
- Self-disciplined
- Leadership ability
- Relationship-building skills
- Negotiation skills (internal and external)
- Detail orientated
- Time management
- Planning and organising skills
- Strong numerical skills
- Communication skills in English (verbal, non-verbal and written)
- A passion for doing high-quality work.
- The ability to think critically, innovate, and solve challenging technical problems.
- Effective time management and logical decision-making ability.
- Being able to self-start and self-motivate when there is no one available to provide instruction.
- Capacity to handle pressure.
- Strong work ethic, and the ability to handle peak work times.
- Willingness to travel
- Emotional Resilience
- Accuracy and detail-oriented
- Initiative and innovation-oriented
- Loyalty and enthusiasm
- Maintaining high performance standards
- Conscientiousness
- Trustworthy (handling confidential information)
Duties include the following, but not limited to:
Technical:
- Project and design management
- Documentation management
- Contract management and administration
- Business development
Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Team player attributes
- Leadership and management (people)
Learning and development:
- Mentoring
- Personal development management
- Innovation
- Performance management
Financial management:
- Budget and cost management
- Debtor management
- External financial management
Requirements:
- 5-10 years of relative experience
- Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering
- Code 8 Driver’s License
- Registered as a Professional Engineering Technologist at ECSA
- Registered as candidate for a Professional Engineering Technologist at ECSA
Salary: Market Related
Vacancy reference no: BFN000023
Closing date: 15 November 2019
To apply for the above-mentioned position and more information visit www.intelligentplacement.co.za/vacancies
If you don’t hear from us within three weeks of your application, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Posted on 25 Oct 14:37
Intelligent Placement
Intelligent Placement will, through its expertise, service standards and national network provide a unique value proposition which will differentiate Intelligent Placement to be the preferred South African Recruitment brand.
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